Monthly Archives: May 2013

GEO-IP Databases – We’re not in Kansas anymore

Posted on May 31, 2013 by Cody Robertson

This is going to be a brief post as to why (as some customers have aptly pointed out) some of our IP’s will show up in completely different locations than where your website was setup in. The way most GEO-IP … Continue reading →

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O Canada — Our Home and Native Land

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Brian Farrell

We’re celebrating a holiday today here in Canada, Victoria Day. The holiday is meant to honor the birthday of Queen Victoria, who by all accounts was a pretty unique lady. She had 9 kids, took over the throne at 18 … Continue reading →

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cPanel Theme Changes and Free Semi-Dedicated Hosting Upgrades

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Brian Farrell

We’re in a good mood this week it seems, as this is our second free upgrade for our customers in less than a week. Five days ago, we doubled the bandwidth limit for all reseller plans at no cost to … Continue reading →

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Out With the Old, In With the New: Moving to PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.5

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Brian Farrell

As of this announcement, all of our servers are now running PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.5 as the default versions. Up until this point (and for a number of years), we were running PHP 5.2 and MySQL 5.1 as default, … Continue reading →

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Resellers Rejoice: Free Bandwidth Upgrades On The House

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Brian Farrell

Congratulations, Hawk Host resellers. You’re getting a free upgrade on your bandwidth quota. We’re doubling the limits for each reseller plan, and it won’t cost you a dime. This upgrade applies to any reseller customer on our bronze, silver, gold, … Continue reading →

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Back To The Basics: Shared web hosting, Reseller web hosting, Semi-Dedicated web hosting and VPS Hosting

Posted on May 8, 2013 by Brian Farrell

Sometimes its easy to take for granted that every customer coming your way knows all about the Internet. In reality, this is hardly the case. Your average person doesn’t know what bandwidth is or why they need it, what cPanel … Continue reading →

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